Cadence IC tools & Subversion

Hi, all.

I finally got around to documenting my experience (and partial
success) with getting Cadence IC & Subversion to co-operate:

http://www.circuitdesign.info/2008/08/getting-subversion-and-cadence-to-play-nice-2/

Note: this is not Cadence integration (http://www.methodics-eda.com).
However, it might be useful to those of you looking for basic
functionality and don't mind the command line.

 

Dear Poojan,

Thanks very much for your efforts in developing and sharing this tool
it with the community ! I like this spirit ;-)
I didn't know about the VersIC from methodics either, thank for
sharing this as well
There is a wiki page on the 'Comparison of revision control software':
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_revision_control_software
and I don't see 'VersIC' over there. It might be worth sparing few
minutes updating the wiki with your tool. I've given the same advice
to another company (www.cliosoft.com) who contacted me right last week
about their Revision control System.

According to the above wiki page, 33 of the top 50 Semiconductor
Companies are using that well known tool I won't name in here. I think
it's good for the community to know about other tools like yours that
are competing in the same arena of semiconductors.

BTW, I've sadly learned over my experience that command-line tools or
freeware tools are rather unwelcome among the major semiconductor
companies. That's a simple fact of life ...

Thanks again for your tool, I'll definitely try it

Riad.

 

Riad: you're welcome. I agree that command-line or freeware tools are
rather unwelcome. I was hoping that someone else would continue to
build on what I've written . In addition, true Cadence integration
requires a GDM license from Cadence. I knew my corporation wouldn't
pay for that; nor did I want to invest the time required to get that
going. Besides, I didn't think I could beat the VersIC solution, which
has Subversion integration solved rather well.

The reason VersIC is not listed at WikiPedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Comparison_of_revision_control_software) is probably because it
falls under the "Perforce" or "Subversion" categories. MethodIC's
didn't re-write a version control system from the ground up. I view
that as a major advantage: should you chose not to continue your
license at some point, your data is still completely available.